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by Staff Writer
March 6-7, 2008
Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice Institute for the Study of Social Change
Co-Sponsored by POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork, East Bay Community Law Center, and the Center on Culture, Immigration, and Youth Violence
Sleeping outside or in a vehicle, soliciting employment, convening in a public space and/or suffering in public from a mental illness are citable offenses in the United States. This criminalization of poverty results in more and more poor families, youth, elders, and adults in this country facing police harassment, abuse, and even incarceration for living in poverty. By bringing together an innovative and powerful mix of voices from poverty and race scholars, alternative/activist policy makers, poverty and civil rights attorneys, legal advocates, media producers, activists, artists, and community leaders, the symposium will provide a forum to explore short and long-term legislative and community based solutions to the problem and launch an in-depth look at the harmful impacts of this dangerous trend on poor people and on U.S. society as a whole.
Speakers include:
2008 Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Lecture on Access to Justice: Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law Symposium:
Michelle Alexander, Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University
Rebecca Alexander, UC Berkeley Institute for the Study of Social Change
Gary Blasi, Professor of Law, Acting Director, UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations
Paul Boden, Executive Director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project
Mary Louise Frampton, Director, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
James Garrett, Division Dean, Peralta Community College District
Lisa Gray-Garcia, Executive Director, POOR Magazine
Joe Hermer, Professor, Sociology and Criminology, University of Toronto
Juan Herrera, UC Berkeley Institute for the Study of Social Change
Gary Linker, Executive Director, New Beginnings Counseling Center (Santa Barbara)
Carlos Mares, Founder,National Day Laborers’ Organizing Network (NDLON-LA)
Leroy Moore, Columnist, POOR Magazine
Monique Morris, Director of Research, Thelton Henderson Center for Social Justice
Steven Pitts, Labor Policy Specialist, UC Berkeley Labor Center
Martin Reynolds, Managing Editor, Oakland Tribune
Victoria Robinson, Coordinator of the Center for Teaching and Study of American Cultures, UC Berkeley
Jeff Selbin, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Olis Simmons, Executive Director, Youth UpRising (Oakland)
Nicol U, UC Berkeley Institute for the Study of Social Change
Mari Villaluna, Legal and Policy Associate, D.C. Employment Justice Center
Lucie White, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Please note:
There is no charge for this event.
The Symposium is wheelchair accessible. For disability-related accommodations please contact csj@law.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-6969.
For details and free registration, visit http://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/csj/symposia
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